News & Information

October 1, 2023

We have renewed our homepage.

September 11, 2023

We have given a presentation at the Japan Iron and Steel Institute 2023 Autumn Conference under the title "Development of zinc recycling process from electric furnace dust using alkali leaching method."

March 27, 2023

Passed the NEDO stage gate examination for further subsidy for pilot plant.

January 13, 2022

Our subsidized project was posted on the NEDO website.

September 1, 2021

The project was selected for the NEDO Energy Conservation Department's subsidized project, ``Program to promote research, development, and social implementation of energy-saving technologies to realize a decarbonized society (development of zinc recycling process from electric furnace dust using alkali leaching method)''. The plan is to construct a pilot plant after passing a stage gate review in February 2023 . (Total project cost approximately 900 million yen)

January 1, 2021

Updated the president's message

December 25, 2020

The Introducing article of our company on NEDO Venture Club has been updated.

December 14, 2020

List of our patents has been updated.

January 30, 2019

Published on J-GTECH, which is operated by the Japan Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation Organization.

March 28, 2018

Article was announced with regards to the Spring 2018 Society for Natural Resources and Materials Research “Zinc recycling process from electric furnace dust using selective chlorination method”

March 5, 2018

We have presented "Zinc recycling process from electric furnace dust using selective chlorination method" at the Spring 2018 Society for Resources and Materials Conference.

December 11, 2017

We made a press announcement because we manufactured zinc with a purity of more than 99.995% of LME standards.

→ Steel Newspaper/Sangyo Newspaper

November 6, 2017

Company name was changed to Kinotech Co., Ltd.

July 28, 2017

We exhibited in Innovation Japan 2017 sponsored by NEDO.

August 31st and September 1st, 2017

Tokyo Big Sight → Innovation Japan 2017

July 13, 2016

We received a development grant from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a national research and development corporation, for the development of an energy-saving high-purity zinc manufacturing process using electric furnace dust as raw material.

May 11, 2017

We made a press announcement as we successfully manufactured high-purity zinc ingots through the process of steel electric furnace dust → crude zinc chloride → refined zinc chloride.

December 22, 2015

The president's message has been updated.

November 6, 2015

LLC-Euglena / SMBC Nikko /Leave a Nest Venture Capital, has underwritten the capital increase of our company through third party allotment.

September 16, 2015

At the Japan Iron and Steel Institute Autumn Conference, Associate Professor Hiroyuki Matsuura of the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Frontier Sciences and others gave a lecture on the selective chlorination reaction of electric furnace dust.

April 17, 2015

We have updated our patent list.

August 27, 2014

We received a development grant from the National Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) for ``Development of an energy-saving high-purity electrolytic zinc production process using steel electric furnace dust'' (incubation research and development).

March 14, 2014

Received the ``Business Idea Seeds Award'' at the Kawasaki City Industrial Promotion Corporation's entrepreneurial audition.